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Repentance is a requirement of salvation

Paul declares, “I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds” (Acts 26:20). The short biblical definition of repentance is “a change of mind that results in a change of action.”

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What is repentance and is it necessary for salvation? Is repentance a change of mind or a change of direction?
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Fellow Traveler said:
What I like about you is your consistently wrong.

First, the Bible teaches that we must repent in order to be saved. “God…now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world” Acts 17:30-31

The Lord is longing that “all should come to repentance" 2 Peter 3:8-10
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You make your repentance a condition to get saved, works, works and more works, you have denied Grace !
 
brightfame52 said:
You make your repentance a condition to get saved, works, works and more works, you have denied Grace !
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It's in the bible but the calvinist blinders you have on just will not let you see it. How can you possibly be show scripture and just ignore it.

Your talking about Cheap Grace. That's what you are Into and you don't even know it. Let me fill you in... Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance


Cheap Grace is the deadly enemy of our church. It is grace without price: grace without cost!… Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine … an intellectual assent … Cheap grace means the justification of sin without the justification of the sinner … Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves.

Explain that one at the judgment because you're definitely guilty of it.
 
Believe said:
That's already been debunked in to other threads. The fact that water baptism or what's better known as baptism regeneration cannot save you. It's not part of the salvation process. It's a ceremony that's done to commemorate a person who saved.
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Let me plot the flight path of my joke. Yup, way over your head.
 
Frank said:
No you're wrong it's not works. Do you have any idea how silly that sounds. It's a cop out thinking Jesus is lord and confessing Jesus is lord and turning from your sins (Repentance) are works of the Flesh.

That's salvation my friend. It's faith.

Your works that you believe have saved you are following the man made tenants of Calvinism.

Study out what works salvation really is, maybe you'll learn something. But I doubt it since it seems like you have a closed mind. But there's still hope for you.

The one condition for salvation is faith in Jesus Christ. Over one hundred times in the New Testament, faith (or belief) is declared to be the sole condition for salvation. Our faith is believing that Jesus is in the fact who he said he is and did what he said he was going to do. To exercise that faith we confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord.

True faith cannot be considered a work because true faith involves a cessation of our works in the flesh. True faith has as its object Jesus and His work on our behalf. They're not trusting in what do, we are trusting in what he has already done.
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The issue is who does what. If you do something required by God to be saved, that's a work. You did what was required, and God owes you salvation as payment. On the other hand, if God works in you to bring about faith, it's not works, because God did it. And to God be ALL the glory, not 99% of the glory plus your 1%.
 
Fellow Traveler said:
It's in the bible but the calvinist blinders you have on just will not let you see it. How can you possibly be show scripture and just ignore it.

Your talking about Cheap Grace. That's what you are Into and you don't even know it. Let me fill you in... Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance


Cheap Grace is the deadly enemy of our church. It is grace without price: grace without cost!… Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine … an intellectual assent … Cheap grace means the justification of sin without the justification of the sinner … Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves.

Explain that one at the judgment because you're definitely guilty of it.
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You make your repentance a condition to get saved, works, works and more works, you have denied Grace !
 
brightfame52 said:
You make your repentance a condition to get saved, works, works and more works, you have denied Grace !
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Mark tells us that Jesus began his ministry by preaching, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel” Mark 1:15

Jesus clearly taught that in order to be saved we must repent and believe in him. So apparently Jesus made repentance a requirement of salvation. How do you get around that?

That command—repent and believe—is what God requires of us in response to the Gospel of Jesus.

Throughout the New Testament, this is what we see the apostles calling people to do. Jesus called on his listeners to repent and believe the good news. Peter, at the end of his sermon on the day of Pentecost, told the people to “repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus” (Acts 2:38). Paul explained his ministry in Acts 20:21, saying, “I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus” (NIV). And in 26:18, he recounts how Jesus himself had sent him

to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God [that is, repent], that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.

Faith and repentance. This is what marks out those who are Christ’s people, or “Christians.” In other words, a Christian is one who turns away from his sin and trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ—and nothing else—to save him from sin and the coming judgment.


Greg Gilbert, What Is the Gospel?
 
Lily said:
Mark tells us that Jesus began his ministry by preaching, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel” Mark 1:15

Jesus clearly taught that in order to be saved we must repent and believe in him. So apparently Jesus made repentance a requirement of salvation. How do you get around that?

That command—repent and believe—is what God requires of us in response to the Gospel of Jesus.

Throughout the New Testament, this is what we see the apostles calling people to do. Jesus called on his listeners to repent and believe the good news. Peter, at the end of his sermon on the day of Pentecost, told the people to “repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus” (Acts 2:38). Paul explained his ministry in Acts 20:21, saying, “I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus” (NIV). And in 26:18, he recounts how Jesus himself had sent him

to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God [that is, repent], that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.

Faith and repentance. This is what marks out those who are Christ’s people, or “Christians.” In other words, a Christian is one who turns away from his sin and trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ—and nothing else—to save him from sin and the coming judgment.


Greg Gilbert, What Is the Gospel?
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Im not denying repentance, but denying that its a condition one meets to get saved, thats works
 
Brandy said:
In your opinion when would repentance take place?
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Repentance comes with regeneration, Christ gives it when He applies His Salvation Acts 5:31

31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

See that, A Saviour that gives repentance not require it as an condition
 
The word repentance comes from a Greek word metanoia. The prefix meta can mean “with,” “beside,” or “after.” An English derivative is metaphysics. The study of physics is the study of those elements of nature that are visible, perceivable, and physical.

Metaphysics is an attempt to reach beyond the realm of the physical world to the transcendent realm. The root noia is the verb form of the noun that we find frequently in the Bible as nous. This is simply the Greek word for “mind.”

In its simplest form, the term metanoia has to do with “the mind afterward,” or, as we might say, “an afterthought.” In the Greek language, it came to mean “a significant changing of one’s mind.”

So, in the most rudimentary sense, the concept of repentance in the Bible means “to change one’s mind.”

When we accept the gift of salvation we repent from our sinful lifestyle that at one time was so appealing to us. It's not a work it has to do with the renewing of our minds. Now we want to be pleasing to God in all that we do.
 
brightfame52 said:
Repentance comes with regeneration, Christ gives it when He applies His Salvation Acts 5:31

31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

See that, A Saviour that gives repentance not require it as an condition
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Jesus does this by sending his Spirit to convince of sin, and to take away the stony heart, and give an heart of flesh to new believers. This enables them to see their true condition and repent. All part of the salvation that's taking place.

The free and full forgiveness of all sins that Jesus gives, which being obtained by his blood, is applied by his Spirit to all that truly repent of their sins. For these two always go together; where he gives the one, he also gives the other. The manifestations and applications of pardoning grace are only made to repenting sinners.
 
brightfame52 said:
Repentance comes with regeneration, Christ gives it when He applies His Salvation Acts 5:31

31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

See that, A Saviour that gives repentance not require it as an condition
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But repentance must be connected with faith, for to turn from sin without setting one’s gaze on Christ is pointless. Repentance and faith can only be commanded in conjunction with the Gospel. The Gospel must be announced, it must be preached.

How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
Romans 10:14

Jesus is commanding repentance and belief in His Gospel, the very person that He is as the Son of God.

Some have tried to separate the necessity of faith from repentance resulting in easy believism.
 
Brandy said:
Jesus does this by sending his Spirit to convince of sin, and to take away the stony heart, and give an heart of flesh to new believers. This enables them to see their true condition and repent. All part of the salvation that's taking place.

The free and full forgiveness of all sins that Jesus gives, which being obtained by his blood, is applied by his Spirit to all that truly repent of their sins. For these two always go together; where he gives the one, he also gives the other. The manifestations and applications of pardoning grace are only made to repenting sinners.
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You in error, and I have shared with you about repentance and its source, so again if anyone conditions their salvation on something they do, its works and denies Grace.
 
@Cyrus

But repentance must be connected with faith,
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It is connected, and Jesus gives them both as Saviour Acts 5:31

31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

God put that on Christ as He exalted Him to give repentance and faith.
 

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